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Some companies have even descended to wiretapping. After a major company lost an $80 million contract because it was underbid by only $200,000, it ran a phone check, found that its lines were bugged throughout the country. It took the winning bidder to court, wrested the contract away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Spying for Profit | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Officials argue that their system cleans the cities of vagrants, helps the harvest and saves the government money. Last week in Pretoria Supreme Court, Justice Quartus De Wet, after hearing arguments that the system has no basis in law, remarked sternly, "The court cannot countenance this procedure." Crusading Lawyer Carlson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Off to the Farm | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: American at Oxford | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

That was a very impressive picture of Charles Eames's home in your Jan. 12 Art section. Who cleans it, and how?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Though Mexico is next door to the U.S., though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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